Finished: 07 PM Sun 27 Jan 13 UTC
Cry "Havoc !"
1 day /phase
Pot: 300 D - Autumn, 924, Finished
Known World 901, PPSC, EoG: 56 SCs
1 excused NMR / no regaining / extend never
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24 Oct 12 UTC Spring, 901: (nekudza): eh, this William Shakespeare's quote is the epigraph to "The Dogs of War" by Frederick Forsyth i'm reading at the moment )
24 Oct 12 UTC Spring, 901: (Retillion): Yes : it comes from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar !
The quote is "Cry 'Havoc !', and let slip the dogs of war."

I found that it was a great name for this game :

1° That tragedy talks about a conspiration, an assassination and the defeat of the conspirators : that makes me think of Diplomacy !

2° "Havoc !" was a military order given to the English military forces in the Middle Ages (901 is during that era) to direct the soldiery to pillage and chaos. In Shakespeare's parlance the "dogs of war" are of course the soldiery.
24 Oct 12 UTC Spring, 901: (DEFIANT): at gettysburg, the battle cry from lee was, "my orders to all my commanders, ATTACK!, ATTACK! ATTACK!", didn't go over so well for him :)
25 Oct 12 UTC Spring, 901: (nekudza): i love to learn something new for me)
25 Oct 12 UTC Spring, 901: (Leif_Syverson): we gotta find us some more dogs to get this war started..
25 Oct 12 UTC Spring, 901: (DEFIANT): BIG DAWGS!
25 Oct 12 UTC Spring, 901: (Dr. Recommended ): Woof! Ahem...WOOFF!!
Hey all.
25 Oct 12 UTC Spring, 901: (Raro): Hey Wag-the-dawg
26 Oct 12 UTC Spring, 901: (taylor4): More JULIUS CAESAR:
mischief, thou art afoot
27 Oct 12 UTC Spring, 901: (NigelFarage): et tu, brute? then, caesar, fall!
27 Oct 12 UTC Spring, 901: (yagoma): it starts in 6 days!
27 Oct 12 UTC Spring, 901: (Tyran): 3 more
27 Oct 12 UTC Spring, 901: (Tyran): Hmmm thought this country was in turans position. Turan controls Samarkand right?
27 Oct 12 UTC Spring, 901: (Raro): Yes you are in Caucasus mts region
27 Oct 12 UTC Spring, 901: (Tyran): Great thought I was farther east...might rejoin as Spain but idk.
27 Oct 12 UTC Spring, 901: (Pimlico): Ola
27 Oct 12 UTC Spring, 901: (yagoma): does the game start when its full or do we have to wait 5 days?
27 Oct 12 UTC Spring, 901: (taylor4): uno más
27 Oct 12 UTC Spring, 901: (Retillion): The game should start as soon as we are 15.
28 Oct 12 UTC Spring, 901: these garrisoned neutrals sure are annoying

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